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Program for Teachers

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Progoff Intensive Journal For Teachers

Created by Dr. Ira Progoff, a depth psychologist, the Intensive Journal® program is an integrated system using writing exercises that can help teaching professionals become more effective educators.

Learn how to work with your experiences and emotions to awareness and insights to give your life greater direction, clarity and purpose.

Intensive Journal® exercises help you overcome preconceived ways of thinking to achieve breakthroughs that were previously not possible.

At our workshops, certified leaders guide you step-by-step through the exercises with the protections of otal privacy. Our program has a 45 year history of helping over 175,000 people.

The Intensive Journal® method provides unique ways for teachers to

  • be more effective in the classroom;
  • develop themselves as teaching professionals;
  • communicate with and relate to parents, colleagues, and the community.
Practical Ways for Teacher Enrichment

The Intensive Journal® method provides teachers with a practical tool to use throughout their career to become more effective in carrying out the many facets of their profession. These benefits include:

Reflect on Your Teaching Practices

  • Apply practical methods to reflect on the quality of your teaching practices.
  • Examine your performance in a private non-judgmental environment.
  • Reflect on work related issues from various viewpoints.

Reconnect with Your Passion for Teaching

  • Reconnect with the underlying reasons that you entered the teaching profession.
  • Obtain renewed energy, vitality and sense of purpose. Discover new interests and ways to view your profession.

Foster Relationships in the Teaching Environment

  • Improve communication and interpersonal skills; become better able to listen to and relate to students, parents and administration.
  • Learn techniques to deepen understanding as a way to build bridges to colleagues, parents and community.

Stimulate Your Productivity

  • Stimulate creative and intuitive capacities — a rich source of knowledge for developing new insights.
  • Work through personal issues to allow for greater focus and enhanced relationships with students and faculty.

Develop Your Career Path

  • Gain perspectives influencing the direction and continuity of your career while developing new goals and opportunities.
  • Identify skills and interests for becoming more productive.

Reduce Stress and Prevent Burnout

  • By working through teaching related issues and personal conflicts, the professional environment becomes less stressful.
  • Resolving issues and reconnecting with your passion for teaching helps prevent burnout.

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Progoff Intensive Journal® Workshop

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Progoff Intensive Journal® Workshop
February 21st – 24th, 2014

Limited seating, register early and save!

Select from either a two or four day workshop and experience a life-changing process to give your life greater direction, vitality and purpose. Developed in 1966 by Dr. Ira Progoff, our nationally-recognized program has helped 175,000 people lead more fulfilling lives. Discover resources and possibilities you could not have imagined. The Intensive Journal® method can be your honest friend in the creative process of shaping your life.

How can you benefit from this method?

  • By using an integrated system of writing exercises. It’s much more than a diary.
  • Gain insights about many different areas including personal relationships, career and special interests, body and health, dreams and imagery, and meaning in life.
  • Apply fresh approaches to access your creative capacities and untapped possibilities.
  • Work in total privacy. Neither you nor anyone else will judge or analyze your life.
  • Use a method that is without dogma. The Intensive Journal® method is a process that can be used by people of all different backgrounds, interests and faiths.
  • You do not have to like to write or be a good writer. You are the only one who reads what you write.
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Intensive Journal® Workshops

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Learn Dr. Progoff’s process for individual growth through direct application and experience in your life. The workshops are an effective and practical way to understand the benefits of the Intensive Journal® method and obtain an experiential grounding in holistic depth psychology.

3 Core Workshops

Part I: Life Context (LC): Foundations of the Intensive Journal® Method.
Prerequisite: None. Length: 10-12 hours

  • Learn basic rules for using the Intensive Journal method and principles of holistic depth psychology that underlie the method.
  • Use Life Positioning exercises to gain a perspective on life.
  • Integrate diary techniques into the ongoing life process.
  • Apply Entrance Meditation ℠ techniques to access inner processes.
  • Utilize Progoff’s model of inner dialogue to deepen understanding of major areas of life.

Part II: Depth Contact (DC): Symbolic Images and Meaning.
Prereq. LC workshop. 10-12 hours

  • Learn additional applications of Progoff’s model of inner dialogue.
  • Apply non-analytical methods for using symbolic material.
  • Use depth techniques for connecting with inner process.
  • Recall and develop significant experiences of meaning.
  • Reappraise a meaningful event that can provide important lessons.
  • Learn advanced meditation techniques.
  • Define and organize issues to synthesize beliefs and priorities.Part III: Life Integration/Journal Feedback™ Process: Integrating the Life Process.

Part III: Life Integration/Journal Feedback™ Process: Integrating the Life Process.
Prereq: LC & DC workshops. 10-12 hours

  • Explain and define the principles for using the Journal Feedback process.
  • Use the daily log function as a tool to stimulate the Journal Feedback process.
  • Apply the  Journal Feedback process to the Life/Time Dimension.
  • Apply the  Journal Feedback process to the Dialogue Dimension.
  • Use dreams and imagery as leads to other sections using the Journal Feedback process.
  • Apply the Journal Feedback process to the Meaning Dimension.

 

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Implementing the Progoff™ Methodology

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Process Definition MagnifierImplementing the Progoff™ Methodology Through the Intensive Journal® Method

The Intensive Journal® method, based upon Dr. Progoff’s unqiue approaches for self-development, has a solid foundation in theory and approach. Here are some of the method’s major features.

Intensive Journal® Workbook: Mirroring the Growth Process

The structure of sections and corresponding writing exercises in the Intensive Journal® workbook mirror the subjective process of perceptions and thoughts taking place inside yourself. Designed with minimal terminology, these procedures provide the means for moving directly into your inner process and drawing forth emotions and experiences to make them accessible and tangible for further development.

Journal Feedback™ Technique: An Active Dynamic Process

Through the Journal Feedback™ process, you avoid self-conscious analysis and preconceived ways of thinking to overcome blockages and foster breakthroughs. Issues are viewed from different angles to realize connections and to create integrations of awareness. Structured as an active and evocative instrument, the Intensive Journal® workbook helps you generate energy and momentum to move forward through cumulative ongoing entries.

Inner Development: Evoking Your Potential

Focusing on inner development, where the most penetrating insights are generated, the Intensive Journal® method provides you with an integrated system for dealing with issues through a direct experience in your life. Certified leaders guide you step-by-step through the method in a contemplative atmosphere.Non-judgmental and non-analytical approaches further the psyche-evoking process. You become immersed in your own growth, drawing forth your unique potential and unfolding life process.

Whole-Life Process: Greater Perspective and Safety

Progoff’s “whole-life” approach provides important benefits of perspective and safety. Greater awareness about a wide range of life experiences creates a foundation for making decisions. Issues can be viewed in a larger context and become more manageable. Using Progoff™ techniques allows for issues to develop, protecting you from premature judgments.

 

Enhance Your Retirement

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New Life Or Old LifeRetirement is one of the big transitions in life. Being retired is perhaps now a reality for you, no longer a distant situation in your future.

Many aspects of our life change: daily routine, priorities, how we think of ourselves, and how others relate to us. Major financial adjustments and planning may be necessary. We may need to reassess where we live. Family concerns may be especially relevant.

Our emotions and thought process are stirring during this time of change. We realize that we are entering another distinct phase of life that offers reat promise and possibilities, but is filled with challenges and uncertainty.

We want our retirement to be special and meaningful, but how do we decide what to do? How do we get a handle on all of the different aspects of our life?

Created by psychotherapist Ira Progoff, PhD, the Intensive Journal® program is an integrated system using writing exercises to give your life greater direction, clarity and purpose. At our workshops, certified leaders guide participants step-by-step through the exercises with the protections of total privacy.

You will learn a unique way to take stock of the many facets of your unique life: family relationships, accomplishments, interests, concerns, and priorities. From this foundation, you can take steps
to develop a cohesive plan for developing your retirement.

Practical Ways to Develop Your Retirement

The Intensive Journal® method provides specific techniques through our integrated system of writing exercises to help you:

Describe your tranisition to retirement

  • Deal creatively with change. Retirement can bring great change in your life in many ways such as: your daily routine, how you relate to and impact others; financial implications; and priorities and interests.
  • Describe each of these areas that comprise this new phase of your life as you connect with your new reality.

Explore and develop interests

  • Review the rich history of your life to discover missed or deferred opportunities. Uncover and explore interests, talents and possible projects that may be ripe for development now that you are retired.

Define and clarify your priorities and values

  • Define your priorities and values. Notice how they may have changed and the implications for each area of your life.
  • Answer the question: what brings you meaning?

Connect with Body and Health Issues 

  • Develop a deeper understanding of the aging process. The body can be a rich source of wisdom in many areas of our life, that can lead to changes in our behavior and life style.

Deepen your connection to personal relationships

  • Explore and perhaps enhance family relationships, which can be an important part of a meaningful retirement.

Define your life style

  • Adapt your daily routines and activities in response to the sea change of retirement. What life style do you want to achieve the objectives of your retirement?

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